1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,280 And turn your Bibles, please, to Matthew chapter #12 the book of 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,480 Matthew chapter #12 We got a lot to get to. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,000 So let's get right to it as we continue looking at the 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,920 fundamentals of the faith and comparing them to the religion, 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,880 the false religion of Islam. And we'll go through just a tiny 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,400 amount of review here in just a moment, and then get to where we 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,200 need to go this week so we can finish those fundamentals of the 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,840 faith. And then next week, answer the 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,320 question I'm sure is on your mind. 16 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,640 How do we witness to the Muslims, friends and the people 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,320 that we have in our community? And I'm really looking forward 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,360 to getting into that next week. And so just by way of review, we 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,840 want to remember that there are 5 pillars of Islam and we saw 20 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,760 that they are the creed. And what is that creed? 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,520 It is there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,120 But then we also saw that there is prayer. 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,600 That prayer is offered five times a day. 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,560 Then there is almsgiving. And that is in certain 25 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,400 situations, 2.5% of a person's income is given to charitable 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,080 pursuits with others fasting, particularly during the month 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,240 long celebration of Ramadan. And then we saw there's a 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,320 pilgrimage. Those who are physically and 29 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:39,000 financially able are required to be able to go to Mecca. 30 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,240 And then we saw last week that there were two fundamentals. 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,520 We saw a sacred texts and authorities. 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,600 And we saw that the sacred texts conclude the Quran, but also the 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,920 hadith, and that hadith that was the book or books rather of 34 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,680 which spoke of Muhammad and what his exploits and his thoughts 35 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,800 were, as well as some interpretation of those and then 36 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,040 his authority, Muhammad being the prophet of prophets, the 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,440 highest of all of the prophets. And then we looked at creation 38 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,880 and we saw that while there were some similarities to where we 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,440 find biblical creation in the Word of God, that the idea of 40 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,000 creation is much different in Islam in the sense that and 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,800 evolution is allowed to be part of it on top of the fact that 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,160 Jesus Christ would not have been part of creation. 43 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,480 And that really is going to be part of what we want to talk 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,440 about today because this week we're going to look at the other 45 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,640 two fundamentals that we mentioned last week, which is 46 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,040 the nature of God and the nature of salvation. 47 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,160 And much of the issue with the nature of God comes down to this 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,920 Jesus Christ, because Muslims will say to you to your face 49 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,800 that they believe in Jesus Christ. 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,240 This is important for us to understand here today, that if 51 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,720 you were to ask a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ, if that 52 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,320 was the question that you were to pose to someone of the 53 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,800 Islamic faith, they would say absolutely, we believe in Jesus 54 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,680 Christ. The issue, however, is what 55 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,560 Jesus Christ do they believe in? Because their Jesus would not be 56 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,600 our Jesus. And that's why when you're 57 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,480 dealing with false religions, when you're dealing with cults, 58 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,200 it's very important to get past the first question and typically 59 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,800 to dig deeper into the answer than just simply accepting the 60 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,680 answer. We're going to see a lot of the 61 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,320 cults, particularly when you ask, do you believe in Jesus 62 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:24,480 Christ? They'll say, of course we 63 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,000 believe in Jesus Christ. Do you believe that God is the 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,560 creator? Yes, we believe that God is the 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,320 creator, but what does that mean? 66 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,000 Define your terms so that we can better understand and you start 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,440 to find that, well, this is not what we believe from the Word of 68 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,080 God, and what they are saying is not from the Word of God. 69 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,280 And it's important for us to understand because the way that 70 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,520 error flourishes is by having some element of truth within it. 71 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,760 The best counterfeits are the ones that look a lot like the 72 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,440 real thing, aren't they? I don't know anything about 73 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:53,800 counterfeit money. I mean, I haven't used it 74 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,040 lately, but I do know this. Is this OK? 75 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,720 We can't use this in a court of law, I don't think. 76 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,800 But anyway, I would know this, that if you put Monopoly money 77 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,960 into the deposit at the bank, you know, put it up that little 78 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,160 tube, I imagine that tube would be coming back real quick 79 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,560 saying, yeah, you cannot make a deposit with this pink note that 80 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 comes from your game of Monopoly. 81 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,120 However, what could be passable is something that has the look, 82 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,680 the feel, the smell of regular money of which we are used to. 83 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,360 And so when it comes to false religions, listen, the most 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,160 outlandish thoughts are typically discarded by most. 85 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,680 It's the ones that have some element of truth within them. 86 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,760 That's what Satan does, isn't he? 87 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,480 He makes sure that there's a little bit of truth and that is 88 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,640 the worm, but the hook is the error, and that's the one that 89 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,640 gets you. And so if you were to ask again, 90 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,560 a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ? 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,880 The answer, of course, 100% will be yes, we believe in Jesus 92 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,400 Christ. But what exactly does that mean? 93 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,040 Well, as we look at the nature of God, they do not believe that 94 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,720 Jesus is God. Do they believe in Jesus? 95 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,120 Yes. But Jesus is not God. 96 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,800 He is not part of the triune God at all. 97 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,440 Jesus, rather is one of the prophets that he was the 98 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,200 greatest of the prophet, except for Muhammad. 99 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,960 Now understand, even those words just coming out of my mouth, 100 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,760 they're blasphemous. Of course, I'm not committing 101 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,080 blasphemy on teaching you this. But that that would be taught is 102 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,400 rank heresy, that Jesus is lesser than Muhammad. 103 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,960 And we saw the character Muhammad last week, that he was 104 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,240 not a man of high character, that he was a warrior prophet, 105 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,400 but that he also had very low morals in every metric and in 106 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,680 every sense of the word. But then we also saw that they 107 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,760 believe that Jesus is to be revered. 108 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,680 Now, this is important, that they do believe that Jesus is to 109 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,640 be be revered. In fact, some of the videos that 110 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,840 I watched this week about Islam and about this very issue, they 111 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:02,000 would often say Jesus may peace be upon him, Jesus may peace be 112 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,560 upon him. And they say that as a form of 113 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,600 reverence. But here is where the issue 114 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,200 comes. Here's where the rub is that 115 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,440 Jesus is not simply to be revered, but it is not enough to 116 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,680 Revere Jesus Christ. What do we need to do to Jesus 117 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,160 Christ? We bow the knee to him that he 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,680 is not just simply revered as we Revere many things, don't we? 119 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,880 We have great respect for many different elements in this 120 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,200 world. But Jesus Christ is not simply 121 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,560 to be revered. He is to be worshipped. 122 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,600 He is to be the one and only way of salvation. 123 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,920 And because Jesus is revered, quote UN quote by Islam. 124 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,360 And again, I want to make clear that while they give lip 125 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,520 servants to reverence, you cannot change the very 126 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,560 fundamental character of God himself and also Revere him at 127 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,320 the same time. There is no way that those two 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,320 spheres can overlap any way at all. 129 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,160 You cannot have reverence for God and then also besmirch his 130 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:04,400 name and then also blasphemy his name at the same time that there 131 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,480 is no reverence there at all. It's just a way to placate 132 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Christians. It's a way to sound more 133 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,880 reasonable, but in no way, shape or form is there any type of 134 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,080 reverence truly for Jesus Christ in Islam. 135 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,520 Well, we're going to look more at what they believe the nature 136 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,080 of Jesus Christ is in just a moment. 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,680 But before I do that, I would like to show you a brief video, 138 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,120 again, not from a Christian point of view, but from a direct 139 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,400 Muslim point of view about what they believe about Jesus Christ. 140 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,200 And then we'll dig a little bit deeper into that. 141 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Let's go ahead. Jesus or Isa Al Isalam is an 142 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,160 important figure appearing in both the Bible and the Quran, 143 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,000 but do both Muslims and Christians have the same belief 144 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,000 regarding his position and role? There are some similarities 145 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,680 between them when it comes to the life of Jesus, such as the 146 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,760 belief that he was born to the Virgin Mary or Lady Mariam, as 147 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,320 the Quran says. She said. 148 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,920 How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have 149 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,080 not been unchaste? He said. 150 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,840 Thus it will be. Your Lord says it is easy for 151 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,920 me, and we will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from 152 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,280 us. And it is a matter already 153 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,640 decreed. Secondly, Jesus was given the 154 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,920 ability to perform certain miracles, such as resurrecting 155 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,040 the dead, giving sight to the blind, and curing the severely 156 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,040 paralyzed. Despite these similarities, 157 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,600 there are some points of differences as well. 158 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:36,679 Christians believe Jesus is an Incarnate or son of God who is 159 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,240 crucified in this world as a sacrifice and atonement for the 160 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,280 sins of mankind. Muslims, on the other hand, 161 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,760 believe Jesus was one of the greatest prophets to have been 162 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,040 sent by Allah for the guidance of humankind, and believing in 163 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,520 him as a prophet is a requirement. 164 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,320 In Islam. He was sent with a divinely 165 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,560 revealed book called the Injeel, a gospel that was later 166 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,800 corrupted and altered, Allah says in the Quran. 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,760 Then we made our messengers follow them one after the other. 168 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,240 Then we sent after them Isa, the son of Mariam, and gave him the 169 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,720 Injeel and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of his 170 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,400 followers. In another verse of the Quran, 171 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,120 Allah says Jesus came to his people as a prophet, confirming 172 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,920 the teachings of the previous divinely revealed book and the 173 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,920 teachings of Prophet Moses. Jesus, son of Mary said, 174 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,480 Children of Israel, I am sent to you by God, confirming the Torah 175 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,280 that came before me. One of the most important 176 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,480 differences Islam has with Christianity is on the 177 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,240 crucifixion of Jesus. According to the Muslims, Jesus 178 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,720 was never truly killed, rather it was made to appear for the 179 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,200 people that it was Jesus but in reality it was someone else. 180 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,520 Allah says in the Quran and for their saying surely we killed 181 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,040 the Messiah ISA son of Mariam, the messenger of Allah. 182 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,360 And in no way did they kill him and in no way did they crucify 183 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,840 him, but a resemblance of him was presented to them. 184 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,240 This also means Muslims believe Jesus is alive and never died, 185 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,480 rather his body was raised into the heavens by Allah. 186 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,400 He will return near the end of times along with the Mahdi, the 187 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,400 12th Imam from the Al UL Bay and assist the Imam in establishing 188 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,840 justice and peace in the world just as it would have been 189 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,440 filled with tyranny and injustice. 190 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,920 Jesus or Isa al Aisalam. So that's enough. 191 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,240 I don't know how you feel about that, but there's a major 192 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,000 differences between what the Bible says about Jesus and what 193 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,240 is taught by the Muslim religion about Jesus. 194 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,800 And the greatest perhaps would be this was that first, well, 195 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,600 first of all would be that Jesus is not God, but secondly, that 196 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,520 he did not die on the cross, that he went on the cross but 197 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,720 was somehow replaced on the cross and never truly died in 198 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,920 the way that the Bible says. Now, if you're like me, this is 199 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,920 a curiosity. How would he have been on the 200 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,880 cross, but yet not died on the cross, but somehow was replaced 201 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,520 on the cross. And so I went on to a little bit 202 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,920 of a rabbit hole, or down a rabbit hole, if you will, 203 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,400 looking on YouTube at different Muslim clerics and to be able to 204 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,120 hear some teaching. And I did bring me to the place 205 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,320 of where we are in Matthew chapter #12 And so we're going 206 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,320 to read just a moment Matthew chapter #12 beginning in verse 207 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:38,840 #38. But I watched a a Muslim cleric 208 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,440 answering questions from different people, including from 209 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,080 Christians. And when this video that I had 210 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,160 seen, there was probably well over 1000 people who were in 211 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,240 this room. And this gentleman was asking a 212 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:57,840 question of the cleric and said, well, you do not believe that 213 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,280 Jesus died on the cross. But I would tell you that the 214 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,720 Bible does say that Jesus died on the cross. 215 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,160 And so how would you answer that? 216 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,560 And so he said, I'd like you to consider Matthew chapter #12 and 217 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:15,400 verse #38 He says, because your own Bible teaches that Jesus 218 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,840 never died on the cross. And if you're like me, that 219 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,080 immediately gets your interest because I'm thinking I've read 220 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,840 the Bible enough to know it seems very clear that Jesus died 221 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,960 on the cross. And so again, I, I want to be 222 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,120 very careful how I explain this to you, that when we're dealing 223 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,560 with error, when we're dealing with these false doctrines that 224 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:38,800 are out there, is that they will take one verse of the Bible or 225 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,120 one small section of verses from the Bible and they will twist it 226 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,560 into something completely different. 227 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,400 And that they will do was they will rely on the ignorance of 228 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,000 the people who they're talking to who do not realize there's a 229 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,920 whole mountain of evidence that would be contrary to the one 230 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,520 verse that they are quoting. So look at Matthew chapter 12 231 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,560 verse #38 it says this. Then certain of the scribes and 232 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,400 the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from 233 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,840 the And he answered and said unto them, An evil and 234 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,120 adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no 235 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,640 sign be given it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. 236 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,400 Now look at this For as Jonas was in the belly, or rather 237 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,680 whereas Jonas was 3 days and three nights in the whale's 238 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:23,160 belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in 239 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,800 the heart of the earth. And so this cleric is starting 240 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,720 to expound off of these verses and he says that prophet Jesus, 241 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,200 you know, peace be unto him. And he says this prophet Jesus 242 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,840 that he makes the mention of the sign and he says the sign is 243 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,400 going to be the fact that of the sign of Jonah. 244 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:47,280 And so he says, now let me ask you when he says, you know about 245 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,160 the book of Jonah, right? And the man said, yes, he says 246 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,760 Jonah. And he goes through explaining 247 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,600 what happened in Jonah up to the point when Jonah got thrown off 248 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,520 of the boat. He says when Jonah got thrown 249 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,640 off of the boat, was he alive or dead? 250 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,800 And the man said alive, He says when he was bobbing up and down 251 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,800 in the water, was Jonah alive or dead? 252 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,440 He said alive. He says Jonah got swallowed in 253 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,800 the the fish. He says was he alive or dead? 254 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:14,680 And the man said alive? He does. 255 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:17,960 When he was spit back out, was he alive or dead? 256 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,480 He said alive. He says at any point in the book 257 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,920 of Jonah, do you find Jonah being dead? 258 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,440 And he said, no. He says, well, this is the sign 259 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,560 that Jesus pointed to. He says, and as Jonah was alive, 260 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,160 he says then also Jesus was alive and never died. 261 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,760 Now we'll say that you can just quickly look at those verses and 262 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,480 maybe make a connection to what he's saying if you didn't know 263 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,880 any of the other verses of the Bible. 264 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,360 But the problem with this, and This is why Bible proper Bible 265 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,400 interpretation is so important. This is why every word in the 266 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,560 Word of God is important, that we don't just read just in a 267 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,400 very general way, but that every word and how the words are put 268 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,080 together are so important. You look at it again, verse #39 269 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,680 says an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, 270 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,720 and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the 271 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,280 prophet Jonas. What's the sign of the prophet 272 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,280 Jonas? 4 As Jonas was 3 days and three 273 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:23,640 nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days 274 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,080 and three nights in the heart of the earth. 275 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:30,240 Now does it say that the sign was that he would die as Jonah 276 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,280 died, or that he would live as Jonah lived? 277 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,360 No. What is the sign? 278 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,000 The three days and the three nights, That's the sign. 279 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,760 And So what he did was he took what the word of God said and he 280 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,640 turned it and twisted it into something completely different 281 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,920 and hoping that nobody paid attention. 282 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,240 Let me put it to you this way. Some of you know, we had a 283 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,440 little bit of an accident with our car back before Bethany's 284 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,480 wedding the day before. As a matter of fact, we were 285 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,800 stopped. Casey was stopped at the light. 286 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,520 My dad, Diane's mom were in the were in the car and it was a 287 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,080 three car pile up. We were at the front. 288 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,560 It happened at a light and so there was some damage in the 289 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,120 back corner of the car. Now, there's been someone else 290 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,240 in the church, which for legal reasons, I can't say because 291 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,600 we're online and the insurance companies might be watching, but 292 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:21,120 that had some similar issues that happened just recently in 293 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,640 the last few weeks. I'm just kidding about the 294 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,480 insurance company anyway, but you understand what I'm saying. 295 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:30,720 But so, so could you imagine saying, I say, you know, I had 296 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:38,200 this accident and it damaged the corner of the car and my brother 297 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,640 had an accident and it damaged the exact same corner of the car 298 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,080 And someone heard me say that and say you, you were in the 299 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,760 exact same accident. I said, no, that's not what I 300 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,040 said. You, you both were on the same 301 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,640 Rd. No, I didn't, I didn't say that 302 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,360 you, you, you both, you were driving the same type of 303 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,120 vehicle. No, I didn't say that they were 304 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,599 both A3 car pile up. No, that that's not what I said. 305 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:06,880 No, no, that's what you said. You said it's exactly the same 306 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,680 thing I said. No, I was just comparing where 307 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,280 the damage was on one car and where the damage was on my car. 308 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:15,560 I wasn't saying that the whole thing was the same. 309 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,920 I was just saying that this one thing was the same. 310 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,319 Jesus was not saying that all of his life experiences would be 311 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:25,079 exactly like Jonah's. That's not what he said. 312 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,560 He said this. There was an element of time 313 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,360 that was when one way in Jonah's life that will be very similar 314 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,000 in life. And was that true? 315 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,440 It absolutely was true. We understand that the three 316 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,200 days and the three nights between the crucifixion and the 317 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,320 resurrection, that's all that's being said here. 318 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,800 And false doctrine always takes the clear teaching of the Word 319 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:54,120 of God and does what it adds to it, takes away from it or twists 320 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,800 it. And so that's what they've done 321 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,720 here because they say, well, this is really the only evidence 322 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,840 of Jesus dying on the cross. And I want to say, what about 323 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,760 the rest of the Gospels? And then they throw up their 324 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,760 hands and say, well, yes, but, you know, the Bible's been 325 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,520 corrupted anyway. Did you catch that in there? 326 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,600 That the message was corrupted of the word of God? 327 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,920 The gospel message that he had was later corrupted that he was 328 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,760 really teaching about all all that time. 329 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,120 But, you know, Bible translators have twisted that and turned it 330 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:22,920 into its own religion. And so that's where it gets very 331 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,480 hard to be able to talk to somebody about these types of 332 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,320 issues because you get to the point where they say, well, is 333 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,120 the Bible even true? And of course, if they don't 334 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:33,880 understand that the Bible was true, then it gets very hard to 335 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,240 have the place of commonality to talk to them about salvation. 336 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,480 So according to the Quran, Jesus was created. 337 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,240 He was not Creator, He was created. 338 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,960 He was the messenger of the children of Israel who performed 339 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:51,000 miracles in order to declare it is Allah who is my Lord and your 340 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,280 Lord. Surah 351 Jesus then rounded up 341 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:00,720 Allah's helpers, the disciples, Surah 352, who bore witness that 342 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,560 they were Muslim. In time, Jesus fulfilled His 343 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,880 mission of calling Jews to worship Allah and was taken to 344 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,400 heaven without experiencing death. 345 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,640 As we just mentioned, the Muslim rejects any notion that Jesus is 346 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,720 God or the Son of God. Surah 19 verse 88. 347 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,440 And as you can see, the rejection of the deity of Christ 348 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,360 goes hand in hand with the rejection of the triune nature 349 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:27,200 of the Lord. Islam rejects the very nature 350 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,200 and character of God as revealed in scripture. 351 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:34,280 We know that Lord, Father, Son and Holy Ghost three and one, 352 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,200 one and three and that that is completely and totally rejected 353 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,440 by Islam. Instead, the Quran reveals that 354 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,280 a God Allah, who is transcendent and removed from mankind and 355 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:50,520 sovereign arbitrarily works as he pleases and works in complete 356 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,240 mystery. So you can see not just the 357 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,840 character of Jesus Christ, but the very character of God. 358 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,280 And I'll go through these very quickly that it says Yahweh, the 359 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,520 God of the Bible. But then Allah, the God of 360 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,320 Quran. Look at the difference for God 361 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,800 so loved the world compared to God baguettes not nor is he 362 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,920 forgotten that there is no. Son of God, immutability. 363 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,960 God never changes compared to Allah. 364 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,640 Changes as he wills. How do you please a God who 365 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,960 changes as he wills? How do you please a God who 366 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,480 lives by his own whims and his own desires? 367 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,720 It's impossible to do one. God is knowable, but yet Allah 368 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,840 is ultimately unknowable. The nature of the relationship. 369 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,200 God is sovereign and intimate compared to Allah is a dominant 370 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,840 master and sovereign on one side, the incarnation. 371 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,480 That God became flesh but Allah does not will become flesh 372 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,240 according to Quran. The nature of unity 1. 373 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,440 Essence and three persons, Father, son and Spirit compared 374 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,400 to Allah is one. In mathematical terms. 375 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,200 God's love is unconditional according to the word of God, 376 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,440 but Allah's love is conditional in the Quran. 377 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,400 Truthfulness. God's word is truth. 378 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,920 We see in the word of God, Allah is the greatest deceiver. 379 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,960 Quran 354. That is certainly a very, very 380 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,920 difficult thing to understand. And of course, the word of God 381 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,280 says that God's son died on the cross to atone for the sins of 382 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,360 the world and that the, that the Quran makes clear that Allah has 383 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:23,360 no son in Surah 2116. I want to read you a little bit 384 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:24,920 longer piece up. We're not there yet. 385 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,960 Sorry, go back. All right, push the wrong 386 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,360 button. All right, Let you look at that 387 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,440 for a while. But I want to read to you an 388 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,680 article and I I don't like reading longer articles, but I 389 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,840 do think it helps gel this thought a little bit more is 390 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,440 from a group called the Muslim Unity Center. 391 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,120 Sure, thank you, brother. That'll be fine. 392 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,480 The Muslim Unity Center, it says this, the Quran tells us a lot 393 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,400 of wonderful things. Thank you about Jesus. 394 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,080 As a result, believers in the Quran love Jesus, honor him, 395 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,280 believe in him. In fact, no Muslim can be a 396 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,680 Muslim unless he or she believes in Prophet Jesus. 397 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,040 It will be quickly obvious though the disciples often 398 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:09,000 referred to him as Almighty God. But I'm sorry, it's important 399 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,880 that I read this correctly. It will be quickly obvious that 400 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,080 the disciples often referred to him as a servant of Almighty 401 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,320 God, but never son of Almighty God. 402 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,400 Peter, for example, said the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the 403 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,040 God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. 404 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,160 And their contention is the disciples only called Jesus a 405 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,360 servant. They never called him God, he 406 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,320 continues. Peter further said God raised up 407 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,120 his servant. Acts 326, where the title 408 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:39,520 servant refers to Jesus. Not only was it Peter, but the 409 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,440 entire group of believers viewed Jesus as Almighty God's servant. 410 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,960 When they raise their voices together in prayer to Almighty 411 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,200 God in the course of their speaking to Almighty God, they 412 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,240 call Jesus your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. 413 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,440 Acts 427. They repeated this title also in 414 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,280 verse 30. Consistently Jesus was being 415 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,680 called servant of Almighty God by the original followers of 416 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,200 Jesus. Some people mistakenly thought 417 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,440 that the disciples called Jesus son of Almighty God. 418 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,400 This inconsistency of translation actually helped to 419 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,360 give this wrong impression. In Listen to this in the King 420 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,040 James Bible. This is a Muslim group that says 421 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,200 this in the King James Bible. The translator called Jesus son 422 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,840 of Almighty God in Acts 313 and 26 and the child of Almighty God 423 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,200 in Acts 427. They simply translated the Greek 424 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,680 word paeda as son or child. But the word paeda also means 425 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,320 servant, and the present context demands this translation, since 426 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,760 the author of Acts is trying in this passage to establish that 427 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,280 Jesus is indeed the servant of Almighty God. 428 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,160 The translators knew that the Greek word paeda means servant. 429 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:52,240 When the same word was used for David in chapter 4 verse 25, 430 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,360 they translated as servant. Why not call Jesus also by the 431 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:57,600 same title? Or do they feel that son is the 432 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,480 correct translation? Why not call David son of 433 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,240 Almighty God? Jesus and David are both called 434 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,160 by the same title in Greek. Why not call them by the same 435 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,760 title in English alone? Other translators recognizes 436 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,080 this inconsistency. Listen to this and corrected it 437 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,680 in modern translations of the Bible. 438 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,040 So the Muslims say, you know what, those newer translations 439 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,360 of the Bible, they take out some of the mentions of the deity of 440 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,800 Christ that probably ought to give us pause to think a little 441 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,120 bit about why we use the King James Bible, Amen. 442 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,520 And so it says this. Nevertheless, the fact that 443 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,320 Jesus was almighty, God's servant, was so well known that 444 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,080 even the King James Bible called him by this title of Matthew 445 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,000 1218 referring back to Isaiah 42. 446 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,800 One Matthew identified Jesus as the servant of the one true God, 447 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,240 Yahweh. So there's a lot that can be 448 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,160 said about what takes place here, but the fact of the matter 449 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,960 is Jesus Christ was a servant. I, I think would anyone argue 450 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,520 with the fact that Jesus was a servant, of course was a 451 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,360 servant. You know, he was a servant. 452 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,280 I know he was a servant. The Muslims know he was a 453 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,200 servant. Of course Jesus Christ was a 454 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,120 servant. We know that He came to serve, 455 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:09,320 but we also know this while He was a servant, he ultimately was 456 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,080 and is God. That part of the fact of Jesus 457 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,560 coming to this earth was to become as what? 458 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,920 The form of a servant. But yet the deity of Christ is 459 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:26,120 immestakable in the Word of God. You can go to John 20 verse 28 460 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:29,280 where Thomas remember doubting Thomas, I won't believe it 461 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,800 unless I see him, unless I put my hands into the nail prints. 462 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,080 And as soon as he saw Jesus, what was his exclamation? 463 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,840 I use this often when talking to people about the deity of 464 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,400 Christ. He said this, My Lord and my 465 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,720 God. Thomas had no problem 466 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,480 understanding that Jesus Christ is God. 467 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,320 Hebrews one verse 8 But the But unto the Son, he, God saith, thy 468 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,240 throne, O God, is forever and ever. 469 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,040 A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. 470 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,080 Hebrews 18 refers to Jesus Christ explicitly as God. 471 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,560 I just mentioned this a moment ago. 472 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,280 Philippians 2 verse 5 and 6 Well I mentioned the same passage, 473 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,680 let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who 474 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,160 being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with 475 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,320 God. John 1030 Jesus said this I and 476 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:25,160 my father are one and he said well there could be a little bit 477 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,160 of misunderstanding about that. Well the next verse says that as 478 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,320 soon as the Jews heard him say I'm my father and one, they took 479 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,480 up stones and wanted to stone him. 480 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,240 I think they were very clear of what Jesus was saying, that he 481 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,840 was God. Jesus did actions that could 482 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,360 only be accomplished by God. He raised the dead, He forgave 483 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,560 sins, He created and sustains the universe. 484 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,600 This becomes even clearer when one considers that God said that 485 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,120 He alone was there during creation, which Jesus was active 486 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,080 in creation. Further, Christ possesses 487 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,840 attributes that only deity can have. 488 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:05,000 Eternality, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. 489 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,440 That everywhere you look in the word of God, Jesus is God. 490 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,720 But what do the Muslims do? They take one verse and twist it 491 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,680 so much that if it was a towel full of water, they twist it so 492 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,480 much there wouldn't even be one drop left in it. 493 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,200 That's how much they twisted it. But they take that one verse, 494 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,840 ignore the balance of Scripture, and say that Jesus wasn't God, 495 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,800 and yet they Revere him. That's rejected completely and 496 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,800 totally that they do not Revere Jesus Christ in any way. 497 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,440 Again, you cannot just merely Revere Jesus. 498 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,720 He's either your Lord or He is not. 499 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,120 There is no middle ground. And so we look at all of this 500 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,760 and we see the nature of God. But then I also want us to look 501 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,600 at very quickly #4 and finally, the nature of salvation. 502 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,920 In Muslim theology, listen to this. 503 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,600 No one is lost. Now we understand we're lost in 504 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,160 our sins. That's why we needed Jesus 505 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,400 Christ to save us. Amen. 506 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:06,120 But in Muslim theology, no one is lost, but all are born weak 507 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,680 and forgetful. It's a big difference, isn't it? 508 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,320 You're merely weak and forgetful. 509 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,720 That's why you don't need a savior. 510 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,240 You need a prophet to guide you and to teach you. 511 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,720 Remember we saw that last week that that's why the Prophet 512 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,840 Muhammad was so uplifted. Why? 513 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,600 Because he was the 1:00 to be able to as the highest form of 514 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,840 prophet, to be able to teach people the good and right way. 515 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,520 They don't need a savior. They just need a guide. 516 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,680 And then their guidance comes Quran, which states these are 517 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,360 the verses of the wise book, a guide and mercy to the doers of 518 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,540 good. So how is 1 saved, quote UN 519 00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:42,520 quote? By being a Muslim. 520 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,520 Now we understand that whoever calls upon the name of Christ 521 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,080 shall be saved, right? That we repent of our sins and 522 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,160 call upon Christ to save us. We're going to see a lot of that 523 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,000 in our message this morning from second Peter chapter #3 But 524 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,200 let's ask the question, what does it mean to be saved to be a 525 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,760 Muslim? Well, there's a formula that you 526 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:06,400 can follow and it's this. It's repentance and faith plus 527 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,840 works equals look at this possible salvation. 528 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,320 That is not a comfort in any way, shape or form, is it? 529 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:22,320 Repentance, faith and works means only possible salvation. 530 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,840 You might get there, you possibly could get there. 531 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,880 Well, that's not a comfort in any way, shape or form. 532 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,640 Repentance. What do we mean by repentance? 533 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:35,440 In Muslim terms, it means this salvation begins with right 534 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,320 belief as seen in the creed. There is no God but Allah and 535 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,440 Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. 536 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,920 Remember, we've seen that creed for the last several weeks. 537 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,640 Repentance is this is the creed. I say it three times to become a 538 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,960 active Muslim. But then faith. 539 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840 What is faith? Well, according to Muslim 540 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,200 teaching, there are 6 fundamentals to the faith that 541 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,040 are essential to salvation. 6 fundamentals. 542 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,000 I'm just going to read them to you #1 Belief in one God alone 543 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,000 with no partners, which means this. 544 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,560 No Jesus #2 belief in angels #3 belief in the revelations which 545 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,480 came down, most notably the Quran #4 belief in all his 546 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,360 prophets from Adam to Muhammad. 5 belief that Allah will judge 547 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,360 all men and women, and six believe that all men and women 548 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,000 will spend eternity in either paradise or hell. 549 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,880 So that is faith. You have to believe in those six 550 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,280 things and then what follows is works. 551 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,560 Right action must accompany belief. 552 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,640 All the pillars must be followed on top of the commands of the 553 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,560 Quran and the Hadith. So you have to follow the five 554 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,760 pillars that we've been looking at everything that's in the 555 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,400 Quran, everything in the deep and then it is possible that you 556 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,040 will achieve salvation. Now we see at the judgment, the 557 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,640 hope is the weight of the good outweighs that of the bad. 558 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,400 So we understand what the Bible says about salvation is this is 559 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,200 that if you sin, you are a Sinner and that you are in need 560 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,240 of a Savior, that when we get to the Great White Throne Judgment, 561 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,160 well, if you are saved, you won't go to the Great White 562 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,240 Throne judgment. But if someone is unsaved and 563 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,160 goes the Great White Throne judgment according to what we 564 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,680 see in Revelation chapter #20 is that your works will be judged. 565 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,320 And it's not your good works and your bad work weighed on a 566 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:35,360 cosmic scale is if you have sinned once you're a Sinner, 567 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,080 you've transgressed and you need a Savior. 568 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,560 And everyone in humanity's history that has tried to save 569 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,640 themselves their own way, including by the way, Muslims 570 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,440 will have to show that they can have salvation on their own. 571 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,600 And every single person at the Great White Throne judgment will 572 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,360 be guilty because they'll find holiness within themselves. 573 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,160 And holiness isn't found with ourselves. 574 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,640 It's only found within Jesus Christ. 575 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,880 But to them it's this, your good works and your bad works. 576 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,800 You put them on a scale and you hope the good works tip to the 577 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,400 good side and the bad works lift themselves up. 578 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,440 Then this. There are many things that could 579 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,480 send someone to hell. Now look at this arrogance, 580 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,600 stubbornness, careless words, giving a temptation. 581 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,520 These are just a few of the examples of the sins that could 582 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,320 send a person to hell. So let me ask you this, where is 583 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,680 any type of comfort within the Muslim religion? 584 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,400 Where is there a time where you have the security of knowing 585 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,120 that someday you will spend an eternity with Allah? 586 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,760 Where do you get to the place where you feel like I know that 587 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,360 I am a friend of Allah, I know that I will spend eternity with 588 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,760 him and have comfort and peace? The answer is there is no Muslim 589 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,640 who could ever have that. So much so that listen, it's 590 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,800 taught that Muhammad couldn't even guarantee that he'd make it 591 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:04,280 to heaven. Muhammad, if he couldn't make 592 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:09,280 it, what Muslim could make it? What an awful, awful line of 593 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,280 theology. What hopelessness. 594 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,480 And that's why when we see the rabid following of Islam 595 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,640 throughout the world, the calls to prayer, the the absolute 596 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,160 devotion, listen, it's not about love, it's about fear. 597 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,320 Why? Because I've got to make sure 598 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:33,440 that in the scales of Allah's justice I've done enough good to 599 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,560 be able to make it to heaven. Listen to this. 600 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,560 Even infants are not assured of making it to heaven if they 601 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,720 pass. In fact, there's a great 602 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,520 likelihood that infants would die in the Muslim theology and 603 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:53,040 go to hell. It's an awful pernicious line of 604 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,560 doctrine. There is one guarantee though, 605 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,320 that someone could make it to heaven, and this is found in 606 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,200 Surah 9 verse #111 and it is this. 607 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,600 It is not that that would be the end. 608 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,679 That would be the end. How many times I push? 609 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:17,389 What did I do here? Let's see, keep pushing this. 610 00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:20,949 Hold on. I feel like I had this, like 611 00:34:20,949 --> 00:34:23,989 this real flourish there, and then I just totally, totally 612 00:34:23,989 --> 00:34:24,909 messed it up. All right? 613 00:34:24,909 --> 00:34:27,310 I don't know what I did. Here we go, here we go, here we 614 00:34:27,310 --> 00:34:30,590 go, here we go, here we go. This is it. 615 00:34:32,350 --> 00:34:37,159 No, that's not it. All right, so I didn't save the 616 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:40,960 last slide. Here is the only pretend that 617 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,360 last 30 seconds didn't happen. OK, Here's the only guarantee 618 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,800 that a Muslim has of making it to heaven is being a martyr. 619 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,920 Does that explain some of the things that we see throughout 620 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,280 the world, by the way, to explain some of what we see in 621 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,440 Gaza, why people would so willingly do some of the 622 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,680 unthinkable things that they would do? 623 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,400 Why? Because it's the only way they 624 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,720 can be sure they will go to heaven. 625 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:13,200 When you understand that, it explains a lot of what we see in 626 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,280 this world. And again, this isn't my, my 627 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,280 word saying this, that Surah Chapter 9 verse #111 And I 628 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,080 checked it myself to be able to make sure that this wasn't 629 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,080 something that was mistaken. It is very, very real. 630 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,000 The only way a Muslim can know is by giving their life for the 631 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,040 faith. So what does that mean? 632 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,120 Again, nothing is done out of devotion, true devotion. 633 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,840 It is completely done out of fear. 634 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,920 There is no love. There is no love. 635 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,240 What do we see about the word of God when it comes to salvation? 636 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,800 Well, that Jesus Christ, actually, we have time to go 637 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:49,920 there. Turn to Acts chapter 4. 638 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,920 I saved so much time on that slide, not being there. 639 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,440 I got time to turn to Acts chapter 4. 640 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,360 All right, I think I didn't save that slide. 641 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:03,760 That's a that's a bummer. All right, by the way, this is, 642 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,760 I purposely picked this text because it's that sermon of 643 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,600 Peter's that the Muslims were out, that he just kept calling 644 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,480 Jesus a servant, A servant, A servant. 645 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,440 As we read just a little bit here, let me ask you, what do 646 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,600 you think is meant by Peter in relationship to Jesus and 647 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,800 salvation? So let's look at Acts chapter 4. 648 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,080 Look at verse #8 the Holy Ghost. I don't know how to explain that 649 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,440 either. So they don't believe in the 650 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,680 Trinity. But anyway, Peter filled with 651 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,360 the Holy Ghost, said unto them, You rulers of the people and 652 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,920 elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deeds 653 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,360 done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole? 654 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:44,880 Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that 655 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,800 by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom He crucified, 656 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,400 whom God raised from the dead. Again, do you see it right 657 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,960 there? He's raised from the dead. 658 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,440 Well, how was He raised from the dead if He didn't die? 659 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,520 The contradictions are so numerous. 660 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,160 We raised from the dead even by him. 661 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,320 Doth this man stand here before you hold? 662 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,640 This is the stone which was said it not of you builders, which 663 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,560 has become the head of the corner. 664 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,920 Now this is a strong and important statement in the New 665 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,200 Testament. Understanding the person and 666 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,560 work of Jesus that He is the chief cornerstone. 667 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,840 Jesus is quoting from the Old Testament Psalm 118 verse #22 668 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,840 but then Jesus made reference of this again himself. 669 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,400 Matthew 2142, Mark 12 verse 10 and 11 and Luke 20 verse 17. 670 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,960 Peter quoted it here that he also quoted in first Peter 671 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,400 chapter 2 verses 7 and 8, which you might remember from our 672 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,360 series on Sunday mornings. But then also Paul alluded to 673 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,760 this verse in Ephesians 2 verse #20 as well, that when it comes 674 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,760 to salvation that Jesus is the chief cornerstone. 675 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,600 And here's the capstone of all of this. 676 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:56,080 Go to the next verse. Neither is there salvation in 677 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,320 any other, for there is none other name under heaven given 678 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,240 among men whereby we must be saved. 679 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,480 Hey, there is. That's it. 680 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,760 All right. Amen. 681 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:11,960 That's I know. Ralph. 682 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,400 I'm with you. All right, all right. 683 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,720 I was dying up here. All right. 684 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:17,520 Now I was withering on the vine up here. 685 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:18,520 We found it. That's all right. 686 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,600 Thank the Lord. But what do we see? 687 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,040 We see this, that Jesus is the only name to be saved under, 688 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,120 that he is the chief cornerstone. 689 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,920 And that is the theme from Old Testament to New Testament, from 690 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:36,920 prophets to gospels to epistles, that it's all about Jesus 691 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,840 Christ. Now we learned some very 692 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,640 important things about folks who believe the Islamic faith. 693 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,640 This last, this, this lesson we're going to try to take by 694 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,640 God's grace, take those things that we learned and be able to 695 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,000 help understand their mindset to better be able to show them the 696 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,720 Jesus Christ of the Bible. You say, well, they're not going 697 00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,400 to be very receptive. They're they're very far away 698 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,200 from what we believe. It's not about whether they're 699 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,960 receptive enough or not. It's about us being faithful and 700 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,240 giving the gospel. And that's knowing the best way 701 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:10,160 to do it by understanding a little bit of what they think. 702 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,880 Thank you for listening. To the sermon from the pulpit of 703 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,800 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 704 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,280 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 705 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,880 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 706 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,680 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 707 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,520 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 708 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,720 grow in His Word.